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Posted on Sunday, September 09, 2007 @ 22:03 by floppy
First off I know clans for some reason are not interested in SEO.  My thoughts on that are your stupid.  Yeah, your stupid.  You can quit reading if your offended.  I am not too much on the caring side tonight.  Yeah they piss me off.  However on to the point.

Splash screens are for the most part dumb and pointless.  I don't think anyone should have one.  Not only for search engine optimization, but they require one more click a person must make to see your real site.  As far as search engines go.  Your site might not ever get crawled if you don't include a text link to the real main page (aka "enter here", "skip intro").  I say this because search engines can not crawl a link from flash or javascript for the most part.

I don't think gamers/clans will ever understand its not all about the images.

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Ped

Ped writes 
You must remember clans are just intreasting in playing games, they don't want have the time to sort all this SEO out come to think of it 80% don't even know how to use there PHPNuke site and struggle to get 1 admin person to manage there site.

On a whole i see your point but i bet 99% of clans couldnt care less, they just want a cool looking website for there mates to enjoy.. Who cares about poxy search engines, i wanna play my game !

Monday, September 10, 2007 @ 03:06

floppy

floppy writes 
Yeah, but when another gamer is using google to find you clan site. If your splash screen isn't search engine friendly you might of lost a possible mate to another poxy clan. :)

Monday, September 10, 2007 @ 06:27

rat

rat writes 
shoot yourself do us a favor, your opinion is as worthless as tits on a boar hog

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 @ 15:19

floppy

floppy writes 
Hmm.. rat what part of the country are you from?

Anyway an opinion is simply that. Just an opinion. They are never worthless.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 @ 15:25

rat

rat writes 
what does it matter where im from, thats my opinion, that his opinion doesnt matter...............i cant even read the comments they dont show for me

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 @ 15:38

floppy

floppy writes 
Yeah I am going to fix that soon. Try IE7 or Firefox for now.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 @ 15:42

rat

rat writes 
I use IE7 and on my other pc firefox cant see either............... dont know, maybe a bug...............

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 @ 15:51

floppy

floppy writes 
hmm.. IE7 and ff2 both work on mine. OK thanks. I will have a look soon.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 @ 15:53

Duck

Duck writes 
Actually I agree with Floppy Splash Screens are dumb! There are the occasional one that are very cool to watch but that can also be presented as a block or module in your site rather than an actual splash screen. I have to say 98% of splash screens I have seen for clan sites are useless though and annoying. While true most clans don't care too much about page rank many people do like to search a clan they are interested in and if they can't find you easy they give up.

It is nice to have a clan site that has active forums and participation and most admins do enjoying seeing the fruits of their labour be enjoyed so they should be concerned with visibility and page rank at least to a small degree.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 @ 09:39

floppy

floppy writes 
Damn maybe I should have let you write the article.

Well put.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007 @ 09:41

rat

rat writes 
works now floppy all comments viewable,

Saturday, September 22, 2007 @ 02:51

Ped

Ped writes 
cheers rat

Saturday, September 22, 2007 @ 03:09

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